Maintaining enthusiasm despite constant failures?

[kralaro]

"Perform your duty and abandon all attachment to success or failure." - Krishna in Gita 2.48, according to Prabhupada.

I'm feeling defeated and not interested in trying anymore. How do i go from here to what Krishna said?

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by kralaro

"Perform your duty and abandon all attachment to success or failure." - Krishna in Gita 2.48, according to Prabhupada.

I'm feeling defeated and not interested in trying anymore. How do i go from here to what Krishna said?

Well, me? I would ignore my feeling of defeat....feelings come and go, they are fleeting and can't be always trusted, imo.
Feel them sure, learn something...never dwell on an unpleasant one.
Do your duty with detachment.

Thinking of Abraham-Hicks you just can't expect to jump from defeat, despair, discouragement right to Enthusiasm and Joy.
But, you could go to something more attainable...like Detachment, to a little Hope, a hint of Inspiration..
and work your way UP to actual Contentment, then maybe Enthusiasm.

Also, get ''trying'' out of your vocabulary ...and ''do'' the thing.
That is influenced by Yoda, Star Wars.

[Unseeking Seeker]

Originally Posted by kralaro

I'm feeling defeated and not interested in trying anymore. How do i go from here to what Krishna said?

We all face this in life, to a greater or lesser degree. There are different ways to deal with this, in my view:

First, the typical Buddhist method, inquiring ‘to whom do these thoughts come’ wherein we disown ownership of those thoughts or resultant emotions and view them simply as objects appearing and disappearing in our consciousness. I find this quite effective.

Second, the tantric method, where we surrender the heart contraction in this case (it could, on another occasion be expansion) to God, who is the ultimate experiencer of all that is. So here, we force identity to acknowledge its non-existence and thus become empty, detached or conversely so full of love and devoted to God that each act, each breath is an offering to Him.

Third, we recognise that life as it plays out in linear time, has already been impulsed in the ethereal domain and we are merely witnessing it from in-form consciousness, which is confined to duality, limited in intellect/wisdom, zero in power and in stupor, hypnotised by the environment while playing our role, as does an actor on stage.

Fourth, we look at the consciousness contraction and do not attempt to interfere. Rather we celebrate it as an experience which we would have been denied, had we remained in singularity of love and light. So we delight in the occurrence.

We may use any or combine the orientations as of our ability.

[kralaro]

You guys are right, i was taking my feelings too seriously. You guys are right about all of the points you've kindly shared with me. I'm now much more productive, thank you.

"Third, we recognise"..
Wow the paragraph; your profile pic is appropriate, light shining in mind 🙏

[kralaro]

Now it seems that through constant failures God was teaching me lesson of Gita 2.47, i mean "Let me show this fool that results are not in his hands". Well, the verse says .."you are not entitled to the fruits of action".. . It's not a complaint with God, i've accepted that that's the way it's.

[Unseeking Seeker]

As far as I recollect, the teaching asks us not to anticipate outcomes or seek fruits of actions, to surrender and keep doing the karma (action) in alignment with dharma (truth)

[kralaro]

Unseeking, knowing one's dharma is the issue. We (I and other humans) just do whatever makes sense to us, like it made sense to Arjuna to not to participate in war.

[Myuniversewithin]

My view on this..

Detachment from success or failure .. it depends on which force is stronger like our attachment or expectation from a task etc vs how much we Love or Surrender to Universe/God

I am trying to practice Being in the present and mind always play tricks to go away from it like.. want to brood over next steps, result of a task etc than being in present. Being in the present b comes easier if we surrender to Bigger Force

[Redchic12]

A quote from Wayne Dyer:

There is no such thing as failure
You only produce a result
It’s what you do with the result that matters.